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Review: Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism
Volker M. Welter
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Book Review| March 01 2015 Review: Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 4 April–6 October 2014 Volker M. Welter Volker M. Welter 1University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2015) 74 (1): 131–132. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.1.131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Volker M. Welter; Review: Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2015; 74 (1): 131–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.1.131 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search A slide show of modern houses and interiors greeted visitors to the exhibition Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism. Among the images were the Idea House II, a demonstration house commissioned in 1948 by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Marcel Breuer’s interior for the House in the Museum Garden from 1949 and Gregory Ain’s Exhibition House from the following year, both shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and a prototype building by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons for developer Joseph Eichler’s X-100 House from 1956. Yet the exhibition’s concept was more complex than this initial display of ideal modern homes as imagined by architects suggested. The goal of curator Donald Albrecht was, as stated in the introductory wall text, to present “the role of Jewish architects and designers in the creation of a distinctly modern American domestic landscape.” The “home” of the... You do not currently have access to this content.